jeen-yuhs is About a Friendship Breakup

The Friday Post.

This is The Friday Post, Hung Up’s weekly roundup of celebrity mess and miscellanea. If you like this kind of thing, why not subscribe? Tonight’s post is really a two-parter: half about Kanye, half about Love Is Blind (and a little bit about the Oscars too.)

Kanye West Donda West in jeen-yuhs. Photo: Netflix.

jeen-yuhs, the three-part documentary about Kanye West, is billed as “being filmed over two decades.” It feels like a half truth, or at least a stretch: most of the documentary is about the years between Kanye leaving Chicago and getting signed to Roc-A-Fella as a rapper, not just as a producer. Most of the footage is about the years he spent making five beats a day for three summers, when he was a guy in the neighborhood trying to learn his trade. Coodie had a local TV show, Channel Zero, and a camera; Kanye was an up and coming local talent. With an eye toward documentation and self-reflection, they linked up: you can see what would make Kanye an interesting subject, and Coodie (…